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-------------------------- P R O G R A M----------------------------
THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CYBERSPACE
---Friday, MAY 14---and---Saturday, MAY 15---
at the Joe C. Thompson Conference Center, 4th Floor
on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin
--------------------------------------------------------------------
D A Y O N E
May 14
Friday Morning, 8.00 am
------"Welcome, Orientation, and Introductory Remarks"
Michael Benedikt (University of Texas)
MORNING SESSION: 8:30 am
Co-moderators: Michael Benedikt and David Gelernter (Yale Univ.)
------"A Conceptual Method For Interacting With Information in a
Three-Dimensional Virtual Environment"
Jim Leftwich, Orbit Interaction, Palo Alto.
------"Simulation-Directed Knowledge Discovery in Databases"
Hans Sieburg, T. Osterhuis, K. Kunzelman and D. Mosier
Lab. for Biological Informatics and Theoretical Medicine
Univ. of California at San Diego, and Scripps Institute.
------"Boundary Disputes: Homeostasis, Reflexivity and the
Foundations of Cybernetics"
N. Katherine Hayles, Univ. of California, Los Angeles.
LUNCH, at large, 12:30 -- 2.00 pm
May 14
AFTERNOON SESSIONS, A and B (Concurrent): 2.00 pm
Session A
Co-moderators: Allucquere Rosanne Stone (Univ. of Texas) and
Michael Century (Banff Center for the Arts)
------"Cybersemiosis: Second Worlds--Second Perception"
Eliot Handelman, Princeton University.
------"The Stealth Landscape"
Thomas Mical, Univ. of North Carolina.
------"Final Amputation: Pathologic Ontology in Cyberspace"
Mark Pesce, Ono-Sendai Corporation, San Francisco.
Session B
Co-moderators: Marcos Novak (Univ of Texas) and
Warren Robinett (Univ. North Carolina)
------"Virtual Egocenters as a Function of Display Geometric Field
of View and Eye Station Point"
Joseph Psotka, U. S. Army Research Institute, VA.
------"Estimating Direction of Gaze in a Multi-Modal Context"
David Koons and Kristin Thorisson,
Media Lab, MIT, Cambridge
------"Spatial Perception in Virtual Environments: Evaluating an
Architectural Application"
Daniel Henry and Tom Furness, Human Interface
Technology Lab., Univ. of Washington, Seattle
DINNER, 6.00 pm -- 8.00 pm
EVENING SESSIONS, Communications Building, Studio B. 8.00 pm
------Roundtable One, 8.00 pm --9.30 pm.
Topic: "New Techniques, New Practices"
Co-moderators: Marcos Novak and Michael Benedikt (UT)
Panelists: David Gelernter, Yale, Dept. of Computer Sciences.
William Mitchell, MIT, School of Arch. and Planning
Warren Robinett, UNC, Dept. Computer Science
Martin Tuori, Keyword Office Technologies, Calgary
J. Wesley Regian, Brooks AFB, San Antonio
Michael Century, Banff Center for the Arts, Alberta
------Roundtable Two, 10.00 pm -- whenever
Topic: "Cyberspace, Society, and the Law"
Co-moderators: Allucquere Rosanne Stone and Don Fussell (UT)
Panelists: Akira Asada, Kyoto Institute for Economic Research
John Perry Barlow, Electronic Frontier Foundation, NYC
Alan Wexelblat, Media Lab, MIT
Bruce Sterling, Writer, Austin
Brenda Laurel, Interval Research Group, Palo Alto
Robert Jacobson, WORLDESIGN, Seattle
---------------------------------------------------------------
D A Y T W O
May 15
Saturday Morning, 8.00 am
------"Introductory Remarks: VR and Cyberspace"
Robert Jacobson, WORLDESIGN, Seattle
MORNING SESSION: 8:30 am
Co-moderators: Richard Cutler (UT) and Robert Jacobson
------"The USENET Oracle: Virtual Authors and Network Community"
David Sewell, University of Rochester, NY
------"Virtu-versity"
Mark C. Taylor, Williams College, Mass.
------"The Decline of City Dailies, Mass Media, Central Place and the
Challenge of Specialized Electronic Cyberspace"
Gene Burd, The University of Texas
LUNCH 12:30 -- 2:00 pm
May 15
AFTERNOON SESSIONS, A and B (Concurrent): 2.00 pm
Session A
Co-moderators: Don Fussell (UT) and William Mitchell (MIT)
------"Lessons from the Gibsonian Matrix"
Michael Almquist, Human Interface Technology Lab
Univ. of Washington, Seattle
------"Load Balancing and Latency Management in a Distributed
Virtual World"
Rick Kazman, University of Waterloo, Ontario
------"A System Architecture for Virtual Worlds"
James Calvin et. al., BBN Systems, Cambridge
Session B
Co-moderators: Erik Josowitz (UT) and Martin Tuori (Calgary)
-----"Constructions and Reconstructions of Self in Virtual Reality"
Sherry Turkle, MIT, Cambridge
-----"MUDs Grow Up: Social Virtual Reality in the Real World"
Pavel Curtis and David Nichols, Xerox Parc, Palo Alto
-----"Virtual Professional Community: Results from the
MediaMOO Project"
Amy Bruckman and Mitchell Resnick, Media Lab, MIT.
FORMAL DINNER (for Category 1 and 2 participants) 8.00 --11.59 pm,
Location to be announced.
-------------------------------------------------
DEMONSTRATIONS AND PERFORMANCES
Day One and Day Two: Times and Locations to be Announced.
++++++++ "The Networked Spoonimation Stand"
Mark Petrakis et. al., pARTy/SCIENCE, Mill Valley
++++++++ "Experiments on Spatial Structures"
Constantin Terzides, Emmanuel-George Vakalo
Univ. of Michigan
++++++++ "Participation in a Synthetic Battlefield"
Carol Chiang, et. al., BBN Systems, Cambridge.
++++++++ "A Networked Virtual Reality"
Carl Loeffler, Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh
++++++++ "Minimal Reality (MR) Toolkit"
Chris Shaw and Mark Green, Univ. of Calgary
++++++++ "Creative Dimensionality in Digital Artistic Contexts"
Christopher Penrose, Princeton Univ.
++++++++ "Dancing with a Virtual Dervish: Worlds in Progress."
Diane Gromala, Marcos Novak, Yakov Sharir, Univ. of Texas
--------------------------------------------------------------------
This Program is subject to revision. For more information, e-mail
3cyberconf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, or write 3Cyberconf, School of
Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
78712. Phone 512-471-1922 Fax 512-471 0716
--------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------R E G I S T R A T I O
N--------------
deadline March 31, 1993
In the interests of vigorous participation by all, attendance at the
Conference is limited. Although we expect to be able to accomodate all
interested parties, priority will be given in the following order:
----Category 1: Participants who have been selected and invited to
present their papers, perform, or demonstrate their work. See Program
above.
----Category 2: Participants not selected to present but who submitted
papers, abstracts, and proposals to the Program Committee before the
January 1, 1993 deadline.
----Category 3: Participants with stated interests, experience, and
expertise in the area of virtual worlds, cyberspace, telecommunications,
computing,
design, cultural studies, information sciences, etc. as submitted in
writing
on or before the registration deadline.
----Category 4: Visitors & Observers who are not actively working in
the field at this time but who have expressed interest in the subject
in writing on or before the registration deadline.
----------------------------
All registrations cover: admission to all Sessions, a copy of the
Collected Papers, various printed materials, and two lunches.
Registration for presenting participants (Category 1) is US$75.00.
Registration for non-presenting participants (Category 2) is US$200.00.
These amounts also cover preferred seating and the Formal Dinner on May
15.
Registration for "participants with expertise" (Category 3) is
US$250.00, and includes the Formal Dinner.
Registration for visitors and observers (Category 4) is US$200.00.
This category does not include the Formal Dinner.
-------------------------------
The mechanics are simple: send your check for the appropriate amount
by <<< March 31, 1993 >>> to
3Cyberconf, Registration,
School of Architecture,
The University of Texas at Austin,
Austin, Texas 78712.
Make checks payable to "3Cyberconf, UT." Be sure that your cover letter
gives us all your "information," i.e. name, affiliation, smail and email
address(es), phone and fax numbers, as well as a short statement about
yourself, your interests, your expertise, etc.
Late registration will be available as space permits at an extra charge
of $25.00. Fax for availability query: 512-471-0716, or call 512-471-0106.
Single and double occupancy suites ($75) and two-bedroom suites for up to
4 people ($140) have been block-booked at The Guest Quarters Suite Hotel,
which is walking distance from the campus, for the nights of May 13, 14,
and 15. Please call them at 512-478-7000, mentioning the Conference, to
reserve your room. Of course you may make other accommodation arrange-
ments if you wish. Let us know if we can be of any help.
The Program Committee of The Third International Conference on Cyberspace
looks forward to seeing you in Austin in May!
-------------------------------------------------------
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Subject: 3CyberConf: Preliminary Program
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-------------------------- P R O G R A M----------------------------
THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CYBERSPACE
---Friday, MAY 14---and---Saturday, MAY 15---
at the Joe C. Thompson Conference Center, 4th Floor
on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin
--------------------------------------------------------------------
D A Y O N E
May 14
Friday Morning, 8.00 am
------"Welcome, Orientation, and Introductory Remarks"
Michael Benedikt (University of Texas)
MORNING SESSION: 8:30 am
Co-moderators: Michael Benedikt and David Gelernter (Yale Univ.)
------"A Conceptual Method For Interacting With Information in a
Three-Dimensional Virtual Environment"
Jim Leftwich, Orbit Interaction, Palo Alto.
------"Simulation-Directed Knowledge Discovery in Databases"
Hans Sieburg, T. Osterhuis, K. Kunzelman and D. Mosier
Lab. for Biological Informatics and Theoretical Medicine
Univ. of California at San Diego, and Scripps Institute.
------"Boundary Disputes: Homeostasis, Reflexivity and the
Foundations of Cybernetics"
N. Katherine Hayles, Univ. of California, Los Angeles.
LUNCH, at large, 12:30 -- 2.00 pm
May 14
AFTERNOON SESSIONS, A and B (Concurrent): 2.00 pm
Session A
Co-moderators: Allucquere Rosanne Stone (Univ. of Texas) and
Michael Century (Banff Center for the Arts)
------"Cybersemiosis: Second Worlds--Second Perception"
Eliot Handelman, Princeton University.
------"The Stealth Landscape"
Thomas Mical, Univ. of North Carolina.
------"Final Amputation: Pathologic Ontology in Cyberspace"
Mark Pesce, Ono-Sendai Corporation, San Francisco.
Session B
Co-moderators: Marcos Novak (Univ of Texas) and
Warren Robinett (Univ. North Carolina)
------"Virtual Egocenters as a Function of Display Geometric Field
of View and Eye Station Point"
Joseph Psotka, U. S. Army Research Institute, VA.
------"Estimating Direction of Gaze in a Multi-Modal Context"
David Koons and Kristin Thorisson,
Media Lab, MIT, Cambridge
------"Spatial Perception in Virtual Environments: Evaluating an
Architectural Application"
Daniel Henry and Tom Furness, Human Interface
Technology Lab., Univ. of Washington, Seattle
DINNER, 6.00 pm -- 8.00 pm
EVENING SESSIONS, Communications Building, Studio B. 8.00 pm
------Roundtable One, 8.00 pm --9.30 pm.
Topic: "New Techniques, New Practices"
Co-moderators: Marcos Novak and Michael Benedikt (UT)
Panelists: David Gelernter, Yale, Dept. of Computer Sciences.
William Mitchell, MIT, School of Arch. and Planning
Warren Robinett, UNC, Dept. Computer Science
Martin Tuori, Keyword Office Technologies, Calgary
J. Wesley Regian, Brooks AFB, San Antonio
Michael Century, Banff Center for the Arts, Alberta
------Roundtable Two, 10.00 pm -- whenever
Topic: "Cyberspace, Society, and the Law"
Co-moderators: Allucquere Rosanne Stone and Don Fussell (UT)
Panelists: Akira Asada, Kyoto Institute for Economic Research
John Perry Barlow, Electronic Frontier Foundation, NYC
Alan Wexelblat, Media Lab, MIT
Bruce Sterling, Writer, Austin
Brenda Laurel, Interval Research Group, Palo Alto
Robert Jacobson, WORLDESIGN, Seattle
---------------------------------------------------------------
D A Y T W O
May 15
Saturday Morning, 8.00 am
------"Introductory Remarks: VR and Cyberspace"
Robert Jacobson, WORLDESIGN, Seattle
MORNING SESSION: 8:30 am
Co-moderators: Richard Cutler (UT) and Robert Jacobson
------"The USENET Oracle: Virtual Authors and Network Community"
David Sewell, University of Rochester, NY
------"Virtu-versity"
Mark C. Taylor, Williams College, Mass.
------"The Decline of City Dailies, Mass Media, Central Place and the
Challenge of Specialized Electronic Cyberspace"
Gene Burd, The University of Texas
LUNCH 12:30 -- 2:00 pm
May 15
AFTERNOON SESSIONS, A and B (Concurrent): 2.00 pm
Session A
Co-moderators: Don Fussell (UT) and William Mitchell (MIT)
------"Lessons from the Gibsonian Matrix"
Michael Almquist, Human Interface Technology Lab
Univ. of Washington, Seattle
------"Load Balancing and Latency Management in a Distributed
Virtual World"
Rick Kazman, University of Waterloo, Ontario
------"A System Architecture for Virtual Worlds"
James Calvin et. al., BBN Systems, Cambridge
Session B
Co-moderators: Erik Josowitz (UT) and Martin Tuori (Calgary)
-----"Constructions and Reconstructions of Self in Virtual Reality"
Sherry Turkle, MIT, Cambridge
-----"MUDs Grow Up: Social Virtual Reality in the Real World"
Pavel Curtis and David Nichols, Xerox Parc, Palo Alto
-----"Virtual Professional Community: Results from the
MediaMOO Project"
Amy Bruckman and Mitchell Resnick, Media Lab, MIT.
FORMAL DINNER (for Category 1 and 2 participants) 8.00 --11.59 pm,
Location to be announced.
-------------------------------------------------
DEMONSTRATIONS AND PERFORMANCES
Day One and Day Two: Times and Locations to be Announced.
++++++++ "The Networked Spoonimation Stand"
Mark Petrakis et. al., pARTy/SCIENCE, Mill Valley
++++++++ "Experiments on Spatial Structures"
Constantin Terzides, Emmanuel-George Vakalo
Univ. of Michigan
++++++++ "Participation in a Synthetic Battlefield"
Carol Chiang, et. al., BBN Systems, Cambridge.
++++++++ "A Networked Virtual Reality"
Carl Loeffler, Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh
++++++++ "Minimal Reality (MR) Toolkit"
Chris Shaw and Mark Green, Univ. of Calgary
++++++++ "Creative Dimensionality in Digital Artistic Contexts"
Christopher Penrose, Princeton Univ.
++++++++ "Dancing with a Virtual Dervish: Worlds in Progress."
Diane Gromala, Marcos Novak, Yakov Sharir, Univ. of Texas
--------------------------------------------------------------------
This Program is subject to revision. For more information, e-mail
3cyberconf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, or write 3Cyberconf, School of
Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
78712. Phone 512-471-1922 Fax 512-471 0716
--------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------R E G I S T R A T I O
N--------------
deadline March 31, 1993
In the interests of vigorous participation by all, attendance at the
Conference is limited. Although we expect to be able to accomodate all
interested parties, priority will be given in the following order:
----Category 1: Participants who have been selected and invited to
present their papers, perform, or demonstrate their work. See Program
above.
----Category 2: Participants not selected to present but who submitted
papers, abstracts, and proposals to the Program Committee before the
January 1, 1993 deadline.
----Category 3: Participants with stated interests, experience, and
expertise in the area of virtual worlds, cyberspace, telecommunications,
computing,
design, cultural studies, information sciences, etc. as submitted in
writing
on or before the registration deadline.
----Category 4: Visitors & Observers who are not actively working in
the field at this time but who have expressed interest in the subject
in writing on or before the registration deadline.
----------------------------
All registrations cover: admission to all Sessions, a copy of the
Collected Papers, various printed materials, and two lunches.
Registration for presenting participants (Category 1) is US$75.00.
Registration for non-presenting participants (Category 2) is US$200.00.
These amounts also cover preferred seating and the Formal Dinner on May
15.
Registration for "participants with expertise" (Category 3) is
US$250.00, and includes the Formal Dinner.
Registration for visitors and observers (Category 4) is US$200.00.
This category does not include the Formal Dinner.
-------------------------------
The mechanics are simple: send your check for the appropriate amount
by <<< March 31, 1993 >>> to
3Cyberconf, Registration,
School of Architecture,
The University of Texas at Austin,
Austin, Texas 78712.
Make checks payable to "3Cyberconf, UT." Be sure that your cover letter
gives us all your "information," i.e. name, affiliation, smail and email
address(es), phone and fax numbers, as well as a short statement about
yourself, your interests, your expertise, etc.
Late registration will be available as space permits at an extra charge
of $25.00. Fax for availability query: 512-471-0716, or call 512-471-0106.
Single and double occupancy suites ($75) and two-bedroom suites for up to
4 people ($140) have been block-booked at The Guest Quarters Suite Hotel,
which is walking distance from the campus, for the nights of May 13, 14,
and 15. Please call them at 512-478-7000, mentioning the Conference, to
reserve your room. Of course you may make other accommodation arrange-
ments if you wish. Let us know if we can be of any help.
The Program Committee of The Third International Conference on Cyberspace
looks forward to seeing you in Austin in May!
-------------------------------------------------------